"..."better to have loved and lost" bullshit. Don't show me paradise and then burn it down."

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Source : Harlan Coben (2009). “Tell No One”, p.29, Dell

Harlan Coben

#Bullshit Quotes #Paradise Quotes #Lost Quotes

“I guess they have to label someone the sexiest person in the world, and it is always someone who is on telly even if itâ€™s the weatherman. For a couple of years it was me and then it was someone else. Itâ€™s nicer being the sexiest man than the most ugly man. I live with it, and I donâ€™t mind it, but I donâ€™t go around with a big smile on my face everyday.”
“The business that people do in LA on the social level is amazing. You go to a restaurant, bump into this guy or that guy. The next day you get a call, and they want you in their movie.”
“It's true we pure mathematicians are connected to a different world. But it is a very real world nevertheless.”
“Blade Runner is one of my favorite films. But, so many thing influenced me that aren't science fiction because they were just good drama. I grew up watching a lot of French cinema. I was in love with The English Patient, and movies that are very romantic in nature and have a positive message. That's a large part of my fingerprint.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“We are in favor of tolerance, but it is a very difficult thing to tolerate the intolerant and impossible to tolerate the intolerable.”
“Of all the enemies to public liberty, war is perhaps the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other. War is the parent of armies; from these proceed debts and taxes; and armies, debts, and taxes are the known instruments for bringing the many under the domination of the few ... No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.”
“By preaching the doctrine that nothing is to be admired except steel and concrete, one merely makes it a little surer that human beings will have no outlet for their surplus energy except in hatred and leader worship.”
“Garrett must have sensed I was awake. "Hey Detective," he said to Uncle Bob, who was now trudging across the grating toward us. "I think we're losing her. I have no choice but to perform mouth-to-mouth." "Don't you dare," I said, my lids still in lockdown.”

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